Omachuck: Blog

I call your attention to these stories by one of the Swarm Cycle's earliest authors. They are being ported 'as is' from the now defunct ASSTR with permission of their author.

There are sixteen more of this author's Swarm Cycle stories. I'm sure all nineteen will be moved into the Cycle collection. Enjoy them and say thank you to "JJ".

Awwww shucks! Now 669. I should have kept quiet and let it ride. But thanks folks. I appreciate you all.

I just noticed that I have 666 followers. How appropriate is that for a porn site?! Hmmm...

I just finished my 1st time reading of an AI generated story. The story was full of typos, stranded letters, wrong pronouns, inconsistent capitalization, often repeated exact descriptions, and more. It feels as though the 'author' didn't bother to read the story before uploading it. I feel cheated...

I must say the story's idea was interesting. I have no idea what involvement this purported 'author' (or any 'author' using AI) has in the creation of an AI generated story. But I do expect an 'author' to respect us readers by cleaning up the story before posting it.

Had this story been submitted as a writing assignment by a high school senior, it would have been graded maybe an 'A' for originality but an overall 'D' or 'C' by depending on how much Ms. Pruett decided to take off for bad proofing and repetitive style. On SOL, readers rated it over 7.5. I guess for those willing to read AI generated stories, this story is above average.

I plowed through it to see if my perception of AI generation was valid. My attention continually drifted to other things because of the number of errors. I'm not likely to read another AI generated story - especially not by this author.

Interesting... Could the owner or programmer of the AI claim authorship by extension? For example, my brother-in-law designs and builds in wood. Furniture, chess pieces... if it enters his head, he does it. He enters designs and specifications into a computer-run lathe, laser whatever. He selects the wood he had collected and cured, and bang - out comes either a complete object or a beautiful part that he assembles into a whole. He does not hand-carve anything.

I don't use AI, so really have no dog in this fight, but I do use many editors/beta readers/proof readers for my stories. Each is a blessing that adds new insights that help me hone the whole. I can't believe that an AI would do as well or get my story to the same or better place. That said - I'm curious to what extent the "story writing AI" is supplied instructions and raw material. Is it like my brother-in-law's woodworking, or a few dollops?

Some day I may have an AI look at one of my stories just for the helluvit - but I'd never consider publishing it.